Abstract
Efficient planning of freight transportation requires a comprehensive look at wide range of factors in the operation and management of any transportation mode to achieve safe, fast, and environmentally suitable movement of goods. In this regard, a combination of transportation modes offers flexible and environmentally friendly alternatives to transport high volumes of goods over long distances. In order to reflect the advantages of each transportation mode, it is the challenge to develop models and algorithms in Transport Management System software packages. This paper discusses the principles of green logistics required in designing such models and algorithms which truly represent multiple modes and their characteristics. Thus, this research provides a unique practical contribution to green logistics literature by advancing our understanding of the multi-objective planning in intermodal freight transportation. Analysis based on a case study from hinterland intermodal transportation in Europe is therefore intended to make contributions to the literature about the potential benefits from combining economic and environmental criteria in transportation planning. An insight derived from the experiments conducted shows that there is no need to greatly compromise on transportation costs in order to achieve a significant reduction in carbon-related emissions.
Highlights
Planning of transportation operations and their execution in an efficient way is a complex process requiring coordination of different activities
Many transportation and route planning tools are available in the market but very often they are based on traditional approach while the consideration of green logistics approach is only limited
By using the models and algorithms introduced in green logistics literature, new functionalities, for example, can help reducing the number of empty miles that is driven, improve the modal split, and reduce transportation times, as well as response times to unexpected events during transportation
Summary
Planning of transportation operations and their execution in an efficient way is a complex process requiring coordination of different activities. Besides the higher complexity of intermodal transportation planning and the different planning phases, it is necessary to look at the objectives according to which the transport flows are planned In this respect the concept of green logistics is becoming more and more important in the field of supply chain management, including activities such as sourcing, procurement or transportation The scientific contribution of this study is threefold: (i) to discuss the requirements for intermodal transportation planning in the green logistics context, (ii) to introduce a bi-objective variant of the Green Intermodal Transportation Problem by discussing details on emissions from three different transportation modes, and (iii) to test bi-objective techniques to solve the investigated problem on a real-world case study.
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